Very much a tourist day today. Our first port of call was to visit the Daydream mine between Silverton and Broken Hill. We went on their guided tour which comprises a short above ground walk followed by a trip underground to see the mine workings. After the tour they serve scones with jam and cream and very nice they were too 🙂
From Daydream Mine we headed back to Silverton to have a look around the remaining buildings in the town. We thought about visiting the Mad Max 2 museum (Mad Max 2 was filmed in the area and there are a lot of film props around). In the end we decided not to bother as admission was a bit expensive and it looked from the outside like a 10 foot square room !
We had a wander around the prison museum though which was cheaper and a LOT bigger.

The Mundi Mundi lookout

From Silverton we headed to the Mundi Mundi lookout which overlooks the vast Mundi Mundi plain. It’s all a lot greener than last time we were here, the picture of my Defender that originally featured at the top of this web site was taken there in 2005 and we tried to reproduce the picture with the 90 this time.
From Mundi Mundi we continued north to Eldee Station, the central point for the 2005 Outback Challenge and also the venue for the final day of the competition. On arriving we had a chat with Steve the owner and he confirmed that the self guided loop that they offer follows the course of the final navigation stage. That was probably the best stage of the event for me and I’ve always remembered it so having the opportunity to drive it again couldn’t be missed.

Sunset at Eldee Station

Tomorrow we’ll have a drive around the loop and then head into Broken Hill where we need to do mundane things like a supermarket shopping trip to stock up on food and beer. We’ll stop the night at Broken Hill before heading east on Monday.